Order suspending quarantine measures
- Date:
- 1813
- Reference:
- WMS/Amer.3
- Part of:
- New Spain: official documentation
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
[Begins:] En oficio de hayer se sirv[e que] decirme el exmo s[eñ]or Virrey, lo que copio. "No debiendo dar ya cuydado las fiebres contagiosas q[u]e aflijen a la ciudad de Puebla y a varios lugares de su Provincia" [&c].
Produced in Mexico.
Official copy (issued by the Intendant at the City of Mexico, Ramón Gutiérrez del Mazo) of an order dated 12 March 1813 requiring suspension of quarantine measures following a favourable report of the Junta de Sanidad. The outbreak of the fevers of 1813 in fact reached epidemic proportions in the city during April, from which more then 20,000 died in the city alone. [See Cooper (1965), pp. 157-182].
Publication/Creation
1813
Physical description
2 ll. (2nd bl.) 21 x 15 cm. Bound.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1962.
Finding aids
Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).
Ownership note
The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores